After losing the fire of dozens of machine guns on the commanding heights, the German defense suddenly fell into chaos, and they could not have imagined that their impregnable defense line would become a hell on earth within a minute, and nearly 100 soldiers were killed and seriously wounded, and they could no longer organize an effective defensive force.

The Germans searched everywhere in the air, trying to know where such neat and efficient shells were flying, and in such a short time, dozens of machine guns on the commanding heights of their positions were wiped out.

Under such precision as a scalpel, the German follow-up machine gunners were so frightened that none of them rushed forward to reorganize the fire defense.

All the Germans believed that their machine-gun positions were being bombarded by Allied artillery, but they did not know where such accurate artillery fire came from.

The German positions lost their strongest fire support, the morale of the army was instantly hit, and the defense of many fire points was loosened.

But Field Marshal Rommel gave the order that it must be held to the death.

Therefore, in the face of the large-scale attack of the Allied forces, the defenders of the German army ambushed in the small buildings on the bank could only use rifles and a small number of light machine guns in each company and platoon to defend the river bank line to the death.

But the momentum of the German army had been crushed by Yan Zhi, and soon, hundreds of Allied soldiers crossed the river under the cover of a barrage of machine guns, and even so, there were still many corpses of Allied soldiers floating on the river, and the blood stained the river red.

The soldiers on both sides, around the river, started a tug-of-war, and it entered the white heat.

The Germans hid in small buildings by the river, relying on the cover of the walls made of reinforced concrete on the ground floor of the small buildings, and fired wildly at the Allied soldiers crossing the river, which was extremely lethal.

By this time, the sky was already dark, and the fog became thinner and thinner under the scorching heat of the small buildings that were burning in many places, and it would not take long for it to dissipate completely.

As a result, the Allies began to use mortars to bombard small buildings wherever the Germans were firing.

The Allies did not use mortars during the foggy weather because there were still residents in some of the small buildings opposite who had not retreated.

When General Omar Erbradley, who commanded the First Army, ordered the 101st Airborne Division to attack, he gave clear instructions that the casualties of the inhabitants of the estate must be kept to a minimum, and that artillery should not be opened lightly unless absolutely necessary.

The 3rd Airborne Regiment of the 306th Airborne Brigade was assigned the main attack mission.

The 1st Battalion attacked the west side of the riverbank. The German positions on the west side of the river bank were crisscrossed with trenches, and the small buildings nearby were relatively scarce, so after dawn, the Allied mortars concentrated on the German positions at this point, and under the intensive bombardment of mortars, the German troops on the west side of the river bank quickly collapsed, and could only retreat back to the second line and reorganize the defense;

The 2nd battalion attacked the middle of the riverbank. Under the ferocious fire of several commanding heights of the German army just now, the 2nd Battalion suffered heavy casualties, a company that had just been pressed up, more than half of the dead and wounded, the battalion commander of the major personally led the 1st Company to rush forward, and was broken by a bullet in the arm, and the blood stained the entire upper body, he and his 1st Company were suppressed by German fire in a depression, and had just been carried down, due to excessive blood loss, his face was pale and angry.

Now, several commanding heights on the German position have been taken by Yan Zhi, and the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion are attacking like crazy to avenge their major battalion commander.

The 3rd Battalion mainly attacked the east side of the riverbank, and this area was the place where the independent company and E company quietly crossed the river in the early morning, and the defense was relatively weak, so the 3rd battalion crossed the river first and started a battle with the Germans responsible for the defense on the east side of the riverbank.

Yan Zhi stood on the third floor of the building, specializing in picking up German machine gunners to shoot, his style of play was quite brutal and rude, as long as the German machine gunner had a Type 24 wooden-handled grenade, he would never hit the head of the German army, a shot hit the grenade, at least two or three German soldiers could be killed, which was much more efficient than killing a devil with one shot.

Gradually, the Germans discovered that their machine gunners would inexplicably explode on their own, blowing up corpses and bones, blurring flesh and blood, and miserable.

Thus, this terror spread among the German machine gunners, and this fear was fatal for the Germans, because their machine gunners became timid about it, greatly weakening their fire defense.

The 3rd Airborne Regiment of the 306th Airborne Brigade launched an offensive on the western, central, and riverbank lines, and the 101st Paratrooper Infantry Regiment of the 506th Airborne Division served as the second offensive echelon and began to attack the riverbank line that the 306th Airborne Regiment could not take care of.

Colonel Xink ordered the 2 battalion to cover with fire, and the 1 battalion managed to cross the river.

The soldiers of the 1st Battalion found several small boats hidden in the grass on the opposite bank, they immediately took action, several soldiers took off their jackets, took a few sips of strong wine to warm themselves up to prevent cramps, and under the cover of machine-gun fire, dived into the water, swam to the opposite bank, and got three small boats back.

Immediately, a platoon of soldiers got into three small boats and, under the cover of heavy machine-gun fire, crossed across the river.

When a platoon of soldiers reached the other side of the river, they immediately organized a defense on the spot, and the three small boats carrying them across the river had ropes and were quickly pulled back to the south bank of the river, and in a short time, another platoon of soldiers successfully crossed the river.

At this time, the Allied sappers, under the cover of machine-gun fire and the assistance of the Allied forces crossing the river, successfully built several simple and fast passages on the river.

The Allies began to cross the river at a rapid pace.

A steady stream of German troops poured in from behind, occupying the small buildings on the bank of the river, and once again pinning down the hundreds of people attacked by the Allies on the bank of the river.

However, with the containment of the Allied firepower across the river, the reinforced German troops could not arrange a complete defensive position, and their commanding heights of firepower were disintegrated by Yan Zhi, and the firepower of the two death elevation angles seemed to have suddenly evaporated and did not play any role.

As a result, the first line of defense of Germany showed signs of collapse, and their second line of defense had already been laid out.

When the first line of defense showed signs of collapse, many German soldiers who were at the forefront began to retreat to the second line of defense in an orderly manner under the command of officers.

The Allied offensive intensified, and several hundred more people crossed the river, and this battle of attack and defense on the bank of the river finally came to an end with the rapid crossing of the river by the Allied troops, so the Allied and German forces, in front of the second line of defense built by the Germans, launched a battle between buildings, almost street fighting.

At this time, the two sides have already begun a battle for every inch of land and every inch of blood.

The Allies will fight for every inch of land, and the Germans will defend every inch of land.

The Germans knew that every time they took a step back, their strategic space would be reduced by one point, and they had no choice but to resist to the death, and Marshal Rommel gave the order to defend them to the death.

Just now, Li Liugen and Li Dazui were squatting by the south wall, looking up at the window door from time to time to prevent the Germans from carrying corpses over.

The tiger tank on the west side of the small building showed its might, the rumbling artillery fire lit up the night sky on the west side of the small building, they were like the brutal god of war, every shot was red, and the small building was shaken, the shock was extremely strong, and more than a dozen tanks fired at the same time was very spectacular.

Li Liugen and Li Dazui had never seen a Tiger tank, and for a long time, their eyes were drawn to the Tiger and Leopard tanks with full fire outside the window.

When Li Liugen pulled his eyes off the mighty body of the Tiger Tank and looked at the south side of the window, he found that a group of German soldiers walked east from the road in front of their small building with strange steps.

"I'm obedient, ri, he is firmly handed, these dogs, why do I look so familiar with the mud?!"

Looking at the strange steps and somewhat stiff bodies of these soldiers, Li Liugen shivered, and he hurriedly reached out and tugged at the placket of Li Dazui's clothes.